UConn will host a one-day film seminar in conjunction with the ReelIreland Film Festival on Saturday, April 5, 2008. The theme will beTransnational Cinemas. As technological developments and economic andsocial globalization come to the forefront of contemporary culturalstudies, the concept of the transnational artist becomes increasinglymore important. Themes that will be considered include but are notlimited to how nationalism is strengthened or weakened in the face ofsuch globalization, literary adaptations to film, identifying a (trans)national audience, Diasporic film, hyphenated identities and cross-cultural production.As the seminar will be hosted amidst the Reel Ireland Film Festival(April 3-6, 2008) and the Annual Gerson Foundation Irish Writer Series,there will be special consideration to Irish cinematic and literaryproduction fit into the global context, however papers on all (trans)national cinemas and topics are greatly encouraged, particularly thosewhich provide a comparative and cultural studies approach.Featured speakers: Tony Tracy, Assoc. Director of the Huston School of Film, NUI Galway Caroline Walsh, Irish Times James Ryan (Gerson Series - April 3)

Films to be screened: Small Engine Repair Once The Front Line Pavee Lackeen and more...

Proposals due by March 1 2008

This is an interdisciplinary conference co-hosted by the University ofConnecticut Departments of Modern and Classical Languages, English, andHistory in conjunction with the Culture Ireland/Irish Film Institute ReelIreland program. Please send one-page proposals by 2/15/08 to NicoleMcClure (nmcclure_at_snet.net) or Mary Burke (Mary.2.Burke_at_uconn.edu) or toReel Ireland 2008, Department of English U-4025, University ofConnecticut, 215 Glenbrook Road Unit 4025, Storrs, CT 06269-4025, USA.